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Question 1

What is dramatic irony

Answer 1

When audience no something they don’t

Question 2

Impetuous

Answer 2

Spontaneous rash

Question 3

Folly of youth

Answer 3

Foolishness

Question 4

Futile

Answer 4

Pointless

Question 5

Context:
Fate and astrology

Answer 5

Astrology heavily believed in. Queen Elizebehr had her own astrologer
Juliet is leo

Question 6

Ovids metamorphosis

Answer 6

The concept of lovers who are prevented from being together by fate seen in Ovids Pyramus and Thisbe a tale in his metamorphosis published around the 8th century
Both have similar endings
Both show destructive nature of feuds

Question 7

Italy context

Answer 7

Romantic wild country where women were sexually promiscuous and where men were violent and prone to duels
This was to break elizebethsn societal construct where women were tied down virgins property

Question 8

Great chain of being

Answer 8

That god made the world with a hierarchy’s structure
King at the top men higher then women
Romeo and Juliet violate great chain of being by being together despite prohibitons
Juliet’s disobedience with her father emphasises this

Question 9

Shakespeare intentions

Answer 9

The boundless power of love is constrained by forces above human control he reindlforces Elizabethan ideas of determinism by showing celestial bodies we’re powerful on human life

Shakespeare makes clear there impetuousness is their hamartia he highlights the dangers of unchecked passion and importance of thinking before acting

Shows consequences of violating societal religious familial construct. He makes Romeo’s hamartia his impetuousness his folly of youth

Question 10

Fervid

Answer 10

Passionate

Question 11

There lie more peril in her eyes than twenty of their swords

Answer 11

Violent imagery:Romeo subconscious recognition notices love is filled with danger
Loving Juliet is a violating act

Blinded by passion and ignorant to the perils of this love

There love from its inception is tarnished by violence and death hinting at the “star crossed” nature of their romance

Violent imagery
Epynomous
Violent allusions

Question 12

Eponymous

Answer 12

Names are in title

Question 13

Then I defy you stars!

Answer 13

Apostrophe: Romeo addresses the start personifying them as tangible forces capable of replying to him
Emphasises deteriorating mental state
Illuminated celestial bodies

Exclamations sentence: enphasises Romeo’s descent into depair and his tragic fate that awaits him

Despite youthful defiance against societal norms his defiance proves futile as the celestial bodies are now melevolent

Apostrophe
Exclamatice
Defiance

Question 14

Deny thy father and. Refuse the name

Answer 14

Deny and refuse semantic field of defiance of family and continent to blind love

She is impulsive in the way she loves wich is characteristic of Leo reinforces elizebeth belief

Patriarchal society this quote goes against norms of society where daughters are property

Semantic field of defiance
Impilulsive
Patriarchal

Question 15

Then I’ll be brief oh happy dagger

Answer 15

Oxymoron: joyous connotation of happy contrast with deadly imagery of dagger. Self sacrifice is act of tragic heroin her fervidity could also be a hamartia

Brief: Juliet’s urge to escape from a world where her love is forbidden challenges societal norms created by religion and family pressure

Urgency emphasises her impetuousness is her hamartia

Oxymoron
Diction
Hamartia

Question 16

Hang beg starve die

Lord capulet

Answer 16

Asyndetic listing: the asydeton intensifies his fury as he is so enraged at Juliet’s disobedience wich juxtaposes tenderness in act one

Patriarchy: symbolises patriarchal and hierarchal structure of Elizabethan society where father owned daughters

Juliet’s refusal was a gross Revolt on patriarchy

Question 17

The sight of death is a bell that warns my old age to a spulcher

Lady

Answer 17

Metaphor: likens her daughter death to a warning bell highlighting her guilt
Contesting her overbearing encouragement of marriage in stave 1
She I snow consumed by her consequences

Image of time: “bell” is conjured imagery of time serving as reminder of life’s fleeting nature and cherishing love over oppressive societal norms

Shakespeare uses lady capulrt to illustrate outcomes of blindly adhering to societal conventions and nurturing hatred

Question 18

The earth that’s natures mother of her tomb what is her burying grave that is her womb

Answer 18

Rhyming couplets: emphasise interconnectedness of life and death
Earth is home to life and a graveyard paradoxically

Emphasises the potential for regeneration of love in the next life

Personification: portrays earth and its celestial bodies as powerful and wise

Rhyming couplets

Question 19

A plague on both your houses

Mercutio

Answer 19

Deathly image: shows how feud is tarnished with death- everyone involved is destined a grim fate

He has become disillusioned with violence and feud yet this propels the tragedy forward

Foil to Romeo: mercutio cynical view of love contrasting Romeo’s idealised notions created him as a foil. His death solidifies his scepticism, highlighting the inseparability of love and violence

Deathly image
Found the truth
Foil

Question 20

Foil

Answer 20

A character opposite traits of main character

Question 21

Have at thee coward

Tubal

Answer 21

Provocative language: his quick temper is immediately apparent audience can see he craves conflict

His simplistic language connote lack of intelligence displayed by character like mercutio he is defined by propensity for violence

Context: honour was valued

Question 22

Wast the prettiest babe that eer… nursed

Answer 22

Superlative: prettiest emphasises an excessive adoration suggesting a motherly bond

This maternal bond is starkly contrasted by lady capulet

Context: aristocratics would have their kids be raised by a wet nurse

Question 23

The structure

Answer 23

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